/*
 * (C) 2009, Elephant Seven Hamburg Gmbh, 
 * Author: Detlev Wiese
 * 
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 */ 
/**
 * <P>This streams package provides functionality to implement 
 * object-streams, which are a more general form of streams
 * than file or other i/o-streams.</P>
 * <P>Object streams package can be understood as companion 
 * to java's Collections-classes. They have both in common 
 * that they represent the behavior of multitudes.</P>
 * <P>While collections (e.g. maps, lists, arrays, sets) provide 
 * many methods to allow changing or accessing their elements, 
 * the streams of this package can only be read and provide 
 * only two methods to do that. Unlike collection-classes streams 
 * can be used to represent infinite multitudes.</P>   
 */
package com.e7.streams;